Article January 25, 1913 Issue

A contributor says in a recent issue: "The assertion made...

George Shaw Cook—Aurora, Ill.

Beacon-News

A contributor says in a recent issue: "The assertion made by Christian Scientists that God is All-in-all, is destitute of meaning;" and then adds, "so far as mortals can comprehend it." Perhaps in that last clause he has in a measure at least answered his own question. For it will be remembered that Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians said: "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

It requires no study of the context to see that Paul referred in this passage to the difficulty which mortals experience in discerning the truth about God. Your correspondent is not the only one who has found it difficult to understand the various definitions of God contained in the Scriptures as interpreted by Christian Science. Yet this interpretation, while difficult for some to understand, is easy for others; and no one need despair who is earnestly seeking to know the truth about God and man. Indeed, this very desire for truth makes it possible for the light of spiritual understanding to penetrate the darkness of human ignorance. This divine light, coming into the human thought, removes prejudice and other mental conditions which obscure the vision of mortal man. Through this process he gradually acquires the true spiritual discernment, without which, as Paul says, one cannot know the things of God.

God, according to the Scriptures and as defined in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, is Spirit. He is also described as infinite and omnipresent. That which is infinite and omnipresent is necessarily all inclusive, and therefore includes all that exists. That which is all inclusive is obviously All-in-all. On page 468 of the Christian Science text-book we further read: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."

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